Re: 🔥Satochip🔥 Hardware wallet - Electrum PR to be natively supported !

Hey @Tibu
I saw you are offering interesting new Satochip blank card in form of SIM card for making our own hardware wallet with Satochip code.
If anything happening if this SIM card is entered in old smartphone, or we still need to use card readers and laptops for this card?
And is there any other difference compared with other Satochip products?

I think this is very cool idea Cool

https://satochip.io/product/satochip-diy-and-developers-card-sim/

Hey,

Sorry for the long-delayed reply...
Yes, you will need a chip card reader or a sim reader to read the chip. In fact, the phone SIM reader could be enough but I doubt you will be able to interract with it directly from a computer and there is no specific mobile phone application to allow such a use.

Wink

But what about notebooks with a build-in SIM card slot? I think they need a special driver to interact with Satochip SIM card , is this correct?

I have 10 years old HP Ultrabook with a SIM slot but don't know where can I get such driver either for Windows or Ubuntu to try your product.

Any "SIM" card reader should work. Your 10-years old HP laptop can be perfect as long as you have the driver that comes with.
We do not provide any specific driver as our reader are not thight to Satochip project. You can use any standard chip card reader.

On Linux, the easiest way to get rid of the reader is to install the pcscd driver. It does the job.

Code:

sudo apt-get install python-usb pcscd
sudo systemctl enable pcscd.service
sudo systemctl start pcscd.service
sudo systemctl status pcscd.service

But on Windows, it can be painful. Try the generic one that comes with Windows when you plug a SIM card into the SIM reader. It might work out of the box.

Happy to help.